Biographie

Benoît Lebot

Executive Director
IPEEC

Mr. Lebot has been the Executive Director of the International Partnership for Energy
Efficiency Cooperation, (IPEEC www.ipeec.org) since March 2014. The IPEEC is
International Partnership among the largest world economies dedicated to energy
efficiency. The IPEEC runs under a mandate from the G20. Mr. Lebot has had an
extensive career in the fields of Energy Efficiency, Climate Change Mitigation, and
Clean Energy Policies.

Between 1990 and 1997, he was part of the French
National Energy and Environmental Agency (ADEME), where he led numerous
background technical studies for the first directives related to the promotion of energy
efficiency in the European Union, which ignited his international career. From 2004, he worked as a Climate
Change & Sustainable Energy Policy Advisor for the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP); where he provided technical leadership on activities designed to
address Climate Change and Sustainable Energy policies in developing countries and
emerging economies. He also developed and managed the UNDP’s portfolio on Climate
Change Mitigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa with a specific focus on energy
efficient public policies that included legal, fiscal and technical measures.

Mr. Lebot is a Civil Engineer from France’s National School of Public Works
(1986) and holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
California in Berkeley (1987).